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November 10, 2010

By now, you all know how much I love vintage. I love vintage furnishings, books, toys, clothes for my girls, especially clothes for me. Well, Rachel (from Smile and Wave) and I are so normal moms, who have budgets, but like playing dress up and love to wear vintage. We thought it would be fun to team up and share once weekly (at least) how we incorporate vintage into our personal (and kids’) wardrobes (also, how we dress in our respective part of the world, as she will get the cold, cold winter and well, me… not so much.) and hopefully encourage you to do the same. In the future, we will also be sharing about other vintage fashion lovin’ mamas that inspire us and are totally cool!

Here is a bit of a Q & A regarding my start in vintage:

Q: When did you start wearing vintage and why?

A: I loved vintage clothing back in college and did the occasional thrift store hunting, but when Ben and I started dating I started wearing vintage more because we would go back to Texas to visit his family, and we would always find the best vintage clothing there. Vintage shopping in Texas was always so great! It wasn’t until recently, that my love for vintage clothing for myself picked up. Though, I was buying vintage clothing for my girls from the moment I found out True was a girl.

I love vintage clothing because the pieces are so well made and the details on the clothes are always so amazing. They just don’t make clothes like that these days! Not to mention, each piece of vintage clothing is unique, more than likely there won’t be another piece out there like it. It is much easier on the wallet to buy unique vintage pieces than pretties from anthropologie (as much as i love that store, it isn’t wallet friendly all the time).

Q: What do you look for in a piece when you’re shopping?

A: I look for pieces in the 40’s and 50’s era, particularly dresses with circle or full skirts. Oh and pockets! I love dresses and skirts with pockets! Also, completely love shirt dresses! Guess, I love all kinds of vintage clothing, anything pretty will suffice!

Q: Favorite vintage find to date?

A: This 1930’s dress. The color and print is just so fabulous and it was in absolute perfect condition when I found it for a steal of a deal too! Unfortunately, I took it home and washed it (note to self: do not machine wash crepe rayon) and it got a couple tears, but I think I fixed it up nicely and it isnt so bad anymore and I still love it just as much!

Q: The one piece that got away (or would’ve broken the bank!):

A: There was this dress for sale on etsy a few months back, but I just took too long to think about it and it sold so fast. I still wish and hope to see something similar again. As for vintage that breaks the bank, I am so in love with this and this (oh bag, please come here!).

Q: How do you style your daughter(s)?

A: My favorite eras for children clothes are the 60’s and 70’s. I love my daughters wearing cute, short dresses (though, not when the are older) with some colorful tights or knee highs and their vintage mary janes or boots. They also have their own particular clothing requests as True loves polk-a-dots and Brave loves red.

In case you aren’t familiar, but I am sure you are, meet Rachel (and Ruby), the vintage there part of this little project…

Rachel, we finally did it (after talking about this little project for a few months now)! I can’t wait to see your vintage pretties on your side of the map! xoxo

We are pretty ecstatic about our little project and hope you all feel the same, and that it encourages you to add a bit of vintage into your life. We also want you to share your vintage wardrobe additions with the rest of us, so if you do have a vintage outfit to share, please leave the link here so we can all check it out and get inspired! “Vintage here, vintage there” coming weekly…

Sooo fun! I'm not a momma yet, and I don't have a ton of vintage clothing- but this was so fun to read about & see pictures of! Looking forward to hearing more about your finds!!! Your girls are beautiful.

i'm excited about this! i don't have a problem finding vintage kid stuff (obviously), but vintage for me is harder… and now i'm pregnant – do you have any tips on wearing vintage while pregnant? (i'm following in your footsteps and having my second girl!)

this is SO great! I love your blog. I also love vintage everything, but I find it difficult to commit to vintage clothing online. I worry that once it comes in the mail the sizing won't be right, or the material won't be what I thought it was. So I'm wondering…do you have any advice for ordering vintage clothing online? how do you get to the point of feeling confident enough to actually commit? also…do you ever have vintage ordering FAILS? 🙂 you order something, and it turns out to be totally wrong? I guess I'm hoping that maybe you don't have a 100% success rate, and that knowing that will help me to just jump in and do it!

Oh wow..those Ferragamos are amazing! I use to work for Ferragamo and use to wear 6.5 back then. I wish I had known you I would have given you my shoes. After 4 boys I no longer wear a 6.5. Sadly I gave them to the goodwill. Back then I rarely used the net and ebay was an infant 🙂

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Kimchi Fried Rice
approximately 6 servings Ingredients:
1. 4 cups day old rice
2. 1 egg per person
3. 2 chopped green onions (white portion for the fried rice, green for garnishing)
4. 1/2 can chopped turkey spam (optional, but I admit I'm a fan of spam)
5. 1 packet of seasoned seaweed (optional)
6. 3 cups good kimchi with its juices
Note:Look for deep red coloring in the juice, and the older the better! This can't be made with fresh kimchi. If the kimchi you buy looks fresh (the cabbage leaves look white and not very flavorful), leave it outside on your kitchen counter overnight.
7. 2 tbsp sesame oil
Directions:
1. Heat up the sesame oil and add in the kimchi (save the juice and set aside). Sauté together, add in the spam, and continue combining it all together.
2. Add in the rice, and break it up mixing it with the kimchi.
3. Add the kimchi juice and the white parts of the green onions. The kimchi juice should turn the rice red.
4. Crumble or cut the seaweed and sprinkle it over and continue to combine it all together.
5. Taste and then season with more kimchi juice if needed.
6. Fry an over easy egg and add that on top. Garnish with the remaining green onions. Plate. Boom. Done. Enjoy!

Helpful tips: Fried rice is best cooked with day old rice. If you don't have day old rice, cook the rice, stick it in the freezer for about 30 minutes to an hour. If it's too hot and fresh, the fried rice will turn out sticky. Also, this recipe doesn't need any additional salt! The kimchi has a very strong flavor, the seasoned seaweed has salt, and the spam is pretty salty too. If the rice tastes bland, try pouring more kimchi juice to season it. Add butter with the sesame oil for extra flavor, but if you're trying to keep it not as low nutrition as possible, leave the butter out!

This recipe is shared and made by my BFF. I just took pictures as she cooked it for us the day I had my little surgery to get my cyst taken care of. She's such a pal! It was totally a minor procedure, but she came for moral support and to make us lunch. I'm thankful for her (and all the yummy food she's ever introduced me to).
Seafood is my favorite type of food to eat, and Korean and Japanese are neck in neck right after. Korean food is just bomb diggity bomb. No joke. If you've never tried it, start with their Korean BBQ, and then work your way up to the bolder flavors. The first time I tried kimchi, it was too strong, but now I absolutely love it! There is much good flavor and spice. Spice! By now you all know how much we love spicy!!! Every time Linda has come over with dinner, it's a new instant favorite and Ben and I are always trying to recreate it. Thanks for sharing the recipe Lin!!!